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Re: ssh-ing in inside private network



On Thu 31 Mar 2016 at 13:28:57 +0200, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 12:43:49PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > I want all the computers on my private network to be able to shh into each 
> > other.  In Jessie, what do I have to do where in what config file?  
> > Presumably some port is shut??
> 
> 0. Each computer should be able to "see" port 22 (ssh) of each other's
>    (I'm assuming you go with the default port for ssh, this can be
>    changed, but I wouldn't do that without some reason)
> 
> 1. Each computer should have an SSH server running (on Debian that would
>    be package openssh-server: in Debian it has priority "optional": I'd
>    double-check that it's installed)
> 
> 3. To connect, you need also an openssh-client (since this has priority
>    "standard" n Debian, chances are that it's there already)
>    You can check all these three by trying from each host "ssh user@the-other-host"
>    and studying the responses.
> 
> Since your question was pretty general, I preferred to go with a terse,
> bird's perspective answer. Let's tackle the details when they come up.

There is also dropbear as a lightweight SSH2 server and client. Using
it in preference to openssh is useful for resource constrained machines.


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